Garment drying apparatus



J. 0. VON STETTEN AND H. JAPRESSMAN.

GARMENT DRYING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 11. I911.

Patented. July 1, 1919.

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GARMENT DRYING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. n, 1912.

Ratented July 1, 1919.

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GARMENT-DRYING APPARATUS.

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and useful Improvement in Garment-Drying Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact, description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this Specification.

Our invention relates to apparatus for drying garments over forms, and has for its principal object the holding of the garment on the form in a taut unwrinkled state suitable for drying with the best results.

We will show and describe our invention in connection with the tubular forms of a hosiery drier, but it is equally adaptable to similar forms for drying other garments.

Our invention consists of clamping members which are normally held against the form, and which, when the garment is applied to the-form, are spaced apart byythe operator and then allowed to return in posi-,. tion against the garment for holding same as described. The construction is suchthat the operation of the clamps does not require the operator to use his hands, which may be fully employed in mounting the garment on the form and smoothing it in place.

Our invention. is applicable to drying forms of the kind described in which the forms are mounted vertically as well as those in which the forms are given an incligiati-on with regard to the level of the ta le.

. Furthermore, our invention has adjustable features, whereby the same apparatus may be used with garments of different lengths upon the forms. I

Other features of advantage will be apparent. from the following description in connection with accompanying drawings, which illustrate an embodiment of our invention applied to forms for drying mens hose. 1

Figure 1- is an elevation, partly broken away, of a portion of the apparatus.

Fig. 2 is a partial sectional view looking at theend of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line 33 of Fig. 1.

Specification of Letters Patent.

. having a longitudinal channel in its surface below which rests the steam piping carrying- Patentcd J uly l, 1919.

Application filed November 17, 1917; Serial No. 202,564.

the drying forms. The exhaust pipe at, of

relatively large diameter and extending the length of the table, is slightly flattened initermediate of its ends, and the flattened portion carries at intervals tubular metallic forms 6 upon which the wet garments 'are drawn for drying. The end stands 21 are curved out in their upper part to receive 'in place by portions y, curved in a similar manner to fit the pipe.

Steam is admitted through a relatively small .pipe 0 running centrally through pipe at, which it enters at either end by a tuiling box (Z. From this pipe 0 nozzles'project upwardly into the hollow forms I) for distributing the steam, as described in the application referred to.

When hose are drawn over the forms, without any holding device thereon, the open ends of the hose gather and Wrinkle and are dried in that condition. With our invention, hose m is drawn down over form 6 and its end held against the form 'by clamping members 6, preventing such rough and irregular conditions for drying. Clamping members carebent to conform to the curvature of the form and are carried on swinging frames 1, on either side of the form, mounted on the same aimed pivotsg.

Pivots g are centrally-located with respect to form I) so that frames 7 swing clamping members 6 similarly andvsymmetrically toward and away fromthe form.

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back, away from the'operatorafor connect the round ends of pipe a, which are secured in'g respectively with iinksj la. by which i the clamping frames are operated. Links toward the operator. .Rod is supported,

, ing in rod 0 with his body;

as by bracket 2'), and is normally held in outer position as by spring r. This spring acts in. the direction to hold clamps e against form I), and the opening of said clamps is accomplished by the o )erator pushhis will turn the disk in clock-wise direction, Fig. 2,

which will raise. link j and lower link 70.

These linksact upon the ears of respective clam-pmg f'ames .7 to tilt the frames into positions shown 1n broken hnes.

lVhen the operator has the garment a;

drawn taut over the form, as required, he releases rod 0 which allows spring 1 to press it outwardly and return the parts'to normal position, in which clamping members (2 grip the end of the garment, as shown-in Fig. 1, and hold same as desired through the drying I operation.

In order to accommodate garments of different lengths, the clamping frames are made adjustable in length as by means of the slot and screw connection a.

When the forms'are inclined. as shown in Fig. (3,supports h are secured to the table so as to bring the line of pivots (1 cent a l with respect to the inclined forms.

. Adjustment of links k, is allowed for by several holes in each for connecting to the ears of frames 7. liy this means, the pressure of the clamping members against the form may be equalized.

The mechanism may be so arranged as to be 0 erated by the foot instead of the body,

as S own in Fig. 6. In thisarrangement, disk m, is operated by a rod t connecting with a foot treadle u, which is held normally. raised, as by spring w. Spring w, in this case, acts as did spring 7 to hold the clamping members against the form, and the operation of the foot treadle to open the clamp as did rod 1' in the first described form.

Having now fully described our invention, what we claim and desire to protect by Let: ters Patent is:

1. In a. garment drier, the combination with a hollow form over which a tubular garment to be dried is adapted to be stretched, of a clamp adapted to confine the open end portion of the garment against the outer wall of the form, said clamp comprising a member consisting of a longitudinally extensible and contractible frame to enable it to be adjusted to adapt it to garments of different length,

2. In a garment drier, the combination with a hollow form over which a tubular which consists of a longitudinally eXt'cnsiblc and contracti-ble frame and a clam ping plate carried thereby, and means to more said frames in unison toward and from the form.

3. In a garment drier, the combination with a hollow form over .wlnch a tubular garment to be dried is adapted to be stretched, of a clamp adapted to conline the open end portion of the garment against the outer wall of the form, said clamp comprising two members each of which consists of a longitudinally extensible and contractible frame and a clamping plate carried thereby, said frames being pivot'ally mounted and located on oppositesides of the form, and means to swing said frames in unison toward and from the form.

4. In a garment drier. the combination with a. hollow form over which the tubular garment to be dried is adapted to be stretched, of a clamp movable toward the form to confine the open end portion of the garment against the outer wall of the form and movable away from the form to release the garment, mechanism to so operate the clamp including a tension device arranged to move the clamp into operative position and manually operable, means to more said clamp, against the action of the tension device, to release the form.

5. In a garment dri r. the combination with a hollow form over which a tubular garment to be dried is adapted to be stretched. of a clamp adapted to'confine the open end portion of the garn'icnt against the outer wall of the form, said clamp comprising two swinging frames and clamping plates carried thereby, a turnable. disk. links connecting the disk and the frames. manually operable means to turn the disk into position to retract the frames from the form, and a tension device. tending to turn the disk in the opposite direction until the clamping plates move into clamping position.

6. In a garment drier, the combination with a hollow form over which a tubular garment to be dried is adapted to be stretched, of a clamp adapted to confine the open'end portion of the garment against the outer wall of the form. said clamp comprising two members located on opposite sides of the form and pivoted on a common axis, connecting links whose upper ends are both located at one side of the form and which are attached to the respective clamping members whereby reverse movements concurrently imparted to the two connecting rods will effect a simultaneous opening or closing of the clamping members. a turnable disk to which the lower ends of the conne'cting rods are attached, rnanliellly"oper-- able means to turn the disk'to impart a clamp-opening movement to the connecting rods, and a tension deviee tendingti) turn the disk and move the connecting rods inthe opposite direction.

7. In a, garment drier, the combination With a. hollow form over which it tubular garment is adapted to be stretched, of a clamp adapted to confine the open end mtion of the garment against-the outer wait of the form, ajtwble, means to adjust the form change its single of inc1ination, a

frame supporting the" elti-inp,'""and means on the table supporting the frame, whereby the clamp may properly cooperate with the form in difi'erent adjusted positions of the latter' hy positioning said supporting means ac- 'cordingly.

which invention We have 

